Re: nettiquette on this mailinglist

Hello Pierre, Friday, February 22, 2008, 5:14:34 PM, you wrote: > Hi Lukas! > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Let me briefly pick on poor David's (unfortunately I could have picked >> any number of posts on any given day just as well) recent emails [1] >> [2]: they are prima example of very bad quoting. Again I do not expect >> everybody to read through the mailinglist README [3] from cover to >> cover. Especially not the linked RFC [4]. However if you do not at >> least skim over it, please use some common sense. Every millisecond >> spend making your post high quality will probably safe hours on a >> global scale. > Using gmail helps to do not follow any rule as it simply hides > everything annoying automatically, even endless threads appear > suddenly manageable ;) But that's a poor excuse :D A good one though as David uses gmail exactly in this way :-) But seriously, it is important to understand such issues, thanks for pointing that out. Best regards, Marcus